Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-12-13
SHRINkAGE OF CATTLE.
The Proper Winter Care and Treatment
of Farm Animals.

The Proper Winter Care and Treatment
of Farm Animals.
But few men properly take into ac-
count the fact that as u rule, they ac-
complish little during the winter
| through feeding, rarely putting much
growth on young stock; more rarely
taking adult stock out of winter into
spring with flesh and fat corresponding
in volume with what they entered the
winter with. If II rat eats through the
| bottom of the wheat bin, or pressure
from the weight of grain opens a crack,
and the grain wastes, straightway the
hole is stopped or a batten put over the
crack. The accommodating grain can
lie plainly seen going to waste upon
the ground So. if our personal com
fort is Interfered with and our fuel is
being wasted by an opening in the
wall, or by a badly-ftting door, all the
inmates see it, and the opening is
closed.
In the case of dumb beast that has
been improved by high breeding, it is
constituted, through the changes
wrought, to give more symmetry and
profit through the flesh it will take on
Men should learn to take ready ac-
count of what they are generally too
slow in seeing, namely, a waste in
winter of what the animal may have
gained in pasture during AN entire
grass season. Under the universal Gus
tom in wintering farm animals, feeders
never know exactly when shrinkage
begins They can not see it as they
realize it as they do the incoming cold
current through a looscly-tittcd door,
1t comes upon the beast stealthily.
Every hour it stands in current of
cold air it parts with sub
stance. The fire burns with
he body, that the strain
upon the system through the cold from
without may lie met. This combustion
this tre-burns up tissues, and the
waste can be discovered early in the
i-tocess only by a resort to the stock
scale. This test, accurately adjusted
never misleads.
When improvement results in refine
ment, lessening the hair covering, maxi
ing the skin thinner, and, under the in
tiuence of the processes that do this
rendering the animal in every way more
quickly affected by cold and neglect of
every sort, then these conditions mnst
be met or el.e the consequences he
taken. If there be the least disposition
to argue that it will not pay to keep pace
With the Improvement by modifying
the conditions, through improving the
shelter and mode of feeling, then better
90 back to the oil l-time beaSt-one that
II eds no special care, and in the way
II profit gives practically nothing.
heh it Is taken into the account that
during winter more feed is required to
MAINTAIN the temperature of the body
up to It's normal state, namely, SO deo..
than for all other purposes, we are
admonished to shield from cold. else
submit To shrinkage. An animal Going
INTO winter with liberal coating of fat
outside the sensitive tissues and under
the HIDE, Is in the best possible copdi-
ION to render the task of taking the
animal through the cold months COM
foriably and economically, because
this layer Of fat is a capital non-con-
iuctor, To permit it to waste away
needleSsly is as unbusiness like as 70
allow ones surplus in the bank to be
trawn out little by little and thrown
away.
IL the doors and windows of dwell
.hg are opened in cold weather, more
tuel must be put into the furnace This
principle holds strictly true when an
Pred to the domestic animal undulv ex-
posed. The layer of fat under the hide
forms breast-work, as it were. keen
ing back the cold fronathe deep-seated
sensitive tissues, and if one succeeds in
getting goodly deposit of this optar
coating OF fat, and plans for shelter IN
iuch manner as to hold this intact
nom week to week, establishing upon
The stock scale that he is holdip6 il
hongh the weather without be severe
men TINS Is proof that he is preventing
'hrlnkage.-NattoHai Lire Stock ,Jo,,r,
nal. 0'"'
Or IL. l. Peck, Professor OF Lam,
ara Greek in Columbia COLLEGE. is
oarety thirty years of age.
-1eneral Boulanger has received
from committee of Russian adlnirer.
valuable sword inscribed; .Qui Viva
La France ct Boulanger."
The late Paul Tulane, founder If
ne tulane University in New Orleans
Ten' 70 that city from Princeton. n,
~ IN 1918, on horseback.
Henry Ward Beecher had no ide,
u .ne value of money. He would buy
pictures and bric-a-brac without think
III OF the price, and give the articles
way 10 the first person who faneied
lhem. -""oieo